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View synonyms for fall out

fall out

  1. Happen, result, as in Let us know how it falls out in the end . [Second half of 1500s]

  2. Also, have a falling-out . Disagree, quarrel, as in The brothers fell out over their inheritance , or They no longer speak—they had a falling-out some years ago . [First half of 1500s]

  3. Leave one's place in military ranks, as in After inspection they were ordered to fall out . [First half of 1800s]



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Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.

Records are combed, correspondence revealed, skeletons fall out of cupboards.

The ringlets had been allowed to fall out and in their place was a gentler, Farrah Fawcett-style wave.

Deficiencies in vital nutrients cause skin to dry, lips to crack, and hair to fall out.

Ivers recalls thumbing through one of Kenney's books one day, only to have a check for $186,000 fall out.

For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.

And I will break thy bow in thy left hand, and I will cause thy arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

To do this, the end of the seed buds may be cut, when most of the seeds will fall out if the buds are fully ripe and dry.

It spots the leaf with hard brown spots that often fall out, producing holes fatal to the value of the crop.

If he has made the tooth of a poor man to fall out, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.

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